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@riot, why are you removing jungle leash?

Jungle monsters now attack the nearest target rather than attempting to chase their original attacker to make their behavior more consistent

how is this a helpful change, i cant wrap my brain around this one.
are you trying to completely force out slow junglers for more high burst single target ones?
please explain to me how junglers like nautilus will still be viable? not only is he an aoe jungler who has a difficult clear in the current jungle which will only worsen in the new one, but he can not even do a clear without a rather strong leash from his team.
i thought that maybe the answer to this was within the new jungle items but you only said that mage and ad caster junglers are getting help.

If you get counter jungled, you can position so the mobs will attack the counter jungler.

Anyway, removing leashing isn't as bad as you make it sound. You can still have someone stand on it to take a beating, and you can still have people wear it down for you. Of course, since this is going to be less gank oriented, you can start with a shirt/machete and 5 sodas for those with a brutal early clear.

Thew new basic jungle item can be built into two items, one of which is catered to AD junglers and one of which is catered to tanks, so your assessment that only mages and ad caster junglers are getting help is wrong.

i'm fine with it. People will stop providing one-shot leashes in favor of sticking around to deal some extra damage (which is and will continue to be much more favorable to the jungler, especially to the 'slow' junglers)

it isn't to help the jungler so much as consistency..someone can still help you damage the first camp before the minions come but now they can do so without "cheating" the game mechanics (pretty much for those who don't know it is entirely possible to lock blue golem from ever attacking anything)

leashing is not totally abolished if positioned for example at the blue golem exactly behind it and the jungler is at the bush then it is considered that the leasher is nearer and will aim for the leasher. This also opens up new jungling possiblities for example you can position your self in a way it will attack the counter jungle instead.

Junglers in season 2 were also way to strong darien from m5 when using shyvanna and would get a good leash and not smite his red and saving the smite for chopping of a wraith or stealing blue early on is quite unfair

Statik also said that there would be new jungle items so its not really a bad thing you ideally just take more damage and have the same / faster clear times.